In a related story, trying to keep binary data secure by wrapping it in other binary data is like trying to keep a fish fresh by putting it another fish. I don't think we thought the dump-everything-on-earth-into-easily-accessible-ones-and-zeros thing through.

bunner:In a related story, trying to keep binary data secure by wrapping it in other binary data is like trying to keep a fish fresh by putting it another fish. I don't think we thought the dump-everything-on-earth-into-easily-accessible-ones-and-zeros thing through.

bunner:In a related story, trying to keep binary data secure by wrapping it in other binary data is like trying to keep a fish fresh by putting it another fish. I don't think we thought the dump-everything-on-earth-into-easily-accessible-ones-and-zeros thing through.

Putting Luke Skywalker into a smelly, stinky tauntaun kept his safe from the ravages of the ice planet Hoth. If it can work for him, surely putting binary data into other binary data will work. Even if you used quantum encryption or some other form of data security, it's still going to be stored as binary data until we can come up with some other way to store the information.

Arumat:bunner: In a related story, trying to keep binary data secure by wrapping it in other binary data is like trying to keep a fish fresh by putting it another fish. I don't think we thought the dump-everything-on-earth-into-easily-accessible-ones-and-zeros thing through.

So...what do you suggest we replace it with?

If I knew that, I'd buy Switzerland. Pointing out the obvious limitations of something doesn't really oblige me to respond to "oh yeah?"s. For starters, I think we can stop making it a collection of petty allegiances to a brazillion flavors of vanilla that all do the same thing, but are just cooked in a different brand of snake oil. The whole IT Guild Cloak of Those Who Know® is sort of shopworn, lately.

I have seen this dumbass article like 5 times now. It is NOT A HACK OR A DATA BREECH. It is just stupid people with malware on their systems.Newsflash, malware on the system can lead to data compromise. This is Ric Romero reporting...

bunner:Arumat: bunner: In a related story, trying to keep binary data secure by wrapping it in other binary data is like trying to keep a fish fresh by putting it another fish. I don't think we thought the dump-everything-on-earth-into-easily-accessible-ones-and-zeros thing through.

So...what do you suggest we replace it with?

If I knew that, I'd buy Switzerland. Pointing out the obvious limitations of something doesn't really oblige me to respond to "oh yeah?"s. For starters, I think we can stop making it a collection of petty allegiances to a brazillion flavors of vanilla that all do the same thing, but are just cooked in a different brand of snake oil. The whole IT Guild Cloak of Those Who Know® is sort of shopworn, lately.

My apologies if I offended you. In my experience when somebody points out a problem but offers nothing regarding solutions what they're really doing is trying to look intelligent without actually having anything to contribute.

I thought the exact same thing. I think actually getting that virus to execute on a user's machine is "hacking". Perhaps that's what they meant.

But anyway... I wonder what they will do with these passwords. I can understand stealing bank, or paypal passwords. But what is someone going to do with a Facebook password? Make fun of your friends?

Use them to make Facebook pages selling crappy products approved by Doctor Oz and making loads of money off of it?

I guess... Any sort of adverts set up on a user's account, are attached to that account. So they may cost some users money by jacking their account to create the ads. But that's about it.Creating pages for products of any kind can be done by anyone for free... I don't see any incentive in that.

I have seen this dumbass article like 5 times now. It is NOT A HACK OR A DATA BREECH. It is just stupid people with malware on their systems.Newsflash, malware on the system can lead to data compromise. This is Ric Romero reporting...

THIS cubed.... and the reporting doesn't help, because, "hacked" really means and suggests that the data was pulled FROM those companies databases, which, as is apparent, it was not (and even if it was, the passwords at least should be hashed to a level that it would be difficult, although not impossible, to trace).